bash linux extract specific lines from a file
start=1The secret here is the power of sed.
increment=5
lines=`cat linesfile.txt|sed -n "$start","$increment"p`
Basically the example above would take the first 5 lines from the file. You could change it though to say take 20 lines starting from the 5th line by adjusting the start and increment values.
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